Boubacar Barry (born 1943 in Guinea) is a Senegalese Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. He was the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association,[1] and he was selected as the 2016 honorary member of the American Historical Association.[2]
Boubacar Barry | |
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| Born | 1943 Guinea |
| Nationality | Senegalese |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of Modern and Contemporary History |
| Employer | Cheikh Anta Diop University |
| Notable work | Le royaume du Waalo, le Sénégal avant la conquête (1972), La Sénégambie du XVe au XIXe siècle: traite négrière, Islam et conquête coloniale (1988), Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa (1998) |
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Publications
editBarry published many scholarly articles and books, including:[3]
- with Mirjana Trifković and Thierno Diallo (Eds.), Catalogue des manuscrits de l'I.F.A.N. : Fonds Vieillard, Gaden, Brevié, Figaret, Shaykh Mousa Kamara et Cremer en langues arabe, peule et voltaiques, Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop (IFAN, Sénégal), Dakar, 1966.
- Le royaume du waalo, le Sénégal avant la conquête, F. Maspero, Paris, 1972. M.A. thesis.
- translation The Kingdom of Waalo Senegal Before the Conquest, Diasporic Africa Press, La Vergne, 2017.
- Bokar Biro : le dernier grand almamy du Fouta Djallon, [ABC], [Paris], [1976].
- La Sénégambie du XVe au XIXe siècle : traite négrière, Islam et conquête coloniale, L'Harmattan, Paris, 1988. PhD thesis.
- translation Senegambia and the Atlantic slave trade, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1998.
- with Pierre Kipré and Leonhard Harding (Eds.), Colloque international "Commerce et commerçants en Afrique de l'Ouest: l'exemple du Sénégal et de la Côte d'Ivoire, Conference papers and proceedings, two volumes, L'Harmattan, Paris, 1992.
- with Heinrich Pleticha (Eds.), Weltgeschichte : in 12 Bänden; [von den Anfängen der Menschheit bis zur Gegenwart]. Bd. 12 Krise und Fortschritt, Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh, 1996.
- Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998.
- with Elisee Akpo Soumonni and Livio Sansone, Africa, Brazil, and the construction of trans-Atlantic Black identities, Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ, 2008.
Bibliography
edit- Ibrahima Thioub, L'École de Dakar et la production d'une écriture académique de l'histoire, in Momar-Coumba Diop (Ed.), Le Sénégal contemporain, Karthala, Paris, 2002, p. 109-154 ISBN 2-84586-236-9
External links
edit- Professor Boubacar Barry on YouTube. OJRUSP 14 June 2013. Video duration 23m 8s. Barry discusses slavery in a conference panel. In French.
References
edit- ^ "Distinguished Africanist Award". africanstudies.org. African Studies Association. 2022. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- ^ Klein, Martin (Nov 1, 2016). "AHA Activities Boubakar Barry, Historian of Senegambia, Selected as 2016 Honorary Foreign Member". historians.org. American Historical Association. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- ^ "Barry, Boubacar". Worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved 5 October 2024.